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UNITED STATES JOHN M. LEwIN, on LocKPoET, NEw YORK, AssIeNoE or ONE-HALE To PATENT i OFFICE.

SAMUELSIBLE'Y MUTTON, OF TORONTO, CANADA.

BOTTLE-STO PPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 267,650, dated November 14, 1882.

.Application led July 15, 1882. (No model.)

I`o all fio/tom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JOHN MATTHEW LEwIN, a citizen ot' the United States, residing at Lockport, in the county ot'Niagara, in the State of New York, one of the United States of America, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Stoppers,ot' which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to bottle Stoppers; and the novelty consists in the construction, adaptation, and arrangement of parts, as will he more fully hereinafter set for-th, and specitically pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of the neck of a bottle provided with my improved internal bottle-stopper. Fig. 2 is a sectional View of. the same. Fig. 3 is a view of the stopper and bottom washer with the slot and indentation. Fig. 4 isa view ofthe stopper with holes instead of slot and indentation.

A is the loop-wire, bent substantially in the form shown.

B is arnetal washer, cast or otherwise rigidly secured in the position shown at the point where the ends of the loop-wire A approach each other.

G is a. stopper, made of rubber or other suitable pliable material. Holes Dare made in the stopper C to permit it to be slipped onto the ends ot' the wire A projecting below the washer B.

E represents the lower removable washer, having a slot, F, sufficiently large to permit the passage of` the ends of the loop A when bent ontward,as shown in Figs.l and 2. By turning the Washer E one-quarter of a circle the bent ends of the wire A are received into recesses Gr, formed in the washer at rightangles to the plane of the slot, the spring of the rubber washer O serving'to'hold the said ends in the recesses G, unless disengaged by force, while .that portion of the rubber washer between the wires serves to hold the wires apart and in locking connection withV the lower washer, E. By carrying the wire through separate holes in the rubber stopper U, each hole being made a. snug fit round the wire, a liquid-tight joint is insured. 'lhcwire A is bulged at its sides, as shown at d, to form a spring, -which, when the wire is forced down into the bottle to displace the stopper C and allow the contents tocesses G, combined with said bail and disk,

with means, substantially as described, for locking the washer in position or removing it at will, as set forth.

2. In an internal bottle-stopper in which the loop-wire is joined together by a metal' washer permanently fixed to it-and the-ends of the wire are bentat right angles, the combination of a removable washer, E, having a slot, F, cut through it, and indentations made in its surface for the purpose ot' holding the stopper C in position, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

J. M. LE WIN.

Witnesses:

GHAs. C. BALDWIN, LEwIs ToMLINsoN. 

